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Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics. -- Mark McKinnon
...if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom... -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Being from a divorced family almost felt like a scarlet letter at times. And I denied it for a long time. -- Bryan Cranston
This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning. -- Chuck Palahniuk
In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh." -- Julie Taymor
It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there. -- Hugh Hefner
I want a sword to slit her end to end and then, with one hundred more cuts, dice her body into small pieces and leave the bloodied,quivering remains of skin, muscle, and soulless guts on her front lawn, arranged in a gruesome scarlet letter. -- Julie Metz
I often felt like I was walking around with this Scarlet Letter stitched to my chest from the way that people treated me. -- Toni Braxton
February-Scarlet words,Though noneThe Scarlet Letter,Entwine their way DeeperDeeperAround the fibersOf my soul.Fusing,Pulsing,Burgeoning,They absorb me,And their architect thereof. -- Larese Mendez
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus. -- Peter De Vries
Twitter is sort of version of labeling, except with 140 characters instead of a labelmaker. It's the way of calling things out for what they are, wearing badges. Twitter is like the new Scarlet Letter. -- Carrie Brownstein

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